TY - CHAP
T1 - Drive theory
AU - Brown, Bernard
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In Freud’s theory of mind, a drive in a broad sense is the force of psychological motivation. In a narrow sense, it is the force of an active innate mental need. An innate mental need is made active by an impulse of an innate need of the body, and its drive forces the mind to do work to the end of satisfying the mental need. The drive does so increasingly until physical action is taken that has the effect of doing away with the somatic impulse, thereby satisfying the innate mental need. In Freud’s theory there are a multiplicity of drives, and part of the work of psychoanalysis is to identify and understand the most fundamental ones – sexual, self-survival, life, and death. All drives have a source, aim, object, and exert pressure.
AB - In Freud’s theory of mind, a drive in a broad sense is the force of psychological motivation. In a narrow sense, it is the force of an active innate mental need. An innate mental need is made active by an impulse of an innate need of the body, and its drive forces the mind to do work to the end of satisfying the mental need. The drive does so increasingly until physical action is taken that has the effect of doing away with the somatic impulse, thereby satisfying the innate mental need. In Freud’s theory there are a multiplicity of drives, and part of the work of psychoanalysis is to identify and understand the most fundamental ones – sexual, self-survival, life, and death. All drives have a source, aim, object, and exert pressure.
UR - https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319246109
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1377
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1377
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary/reference book
SN - 9783319246109
T3 - Springer reference live
SP - 1212
EP - 1219
BT - Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences
A2 - Zeigler-Hill, Virgil
A2 - Shackelford, Todd K.
PB - Springer, Springer Nature
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -